Christina Applegate: Snapshot
- Name
- Christina Applegate
- Birth Date
- November 25, 1971
- Birth Place
- Los Angeles, Calif.
After bidding goodbye to the dysfunctional Bundy family, Applegate kept the laughs coming with an Emmy-winning guest spot as Jennifer Aniston's sister on Friends and holding her own with the newsroom boys in 2004's Anchorman.
In 2007, she returned to TV in ABC's Samantha Who?, playing a former bad girl struck by amnesia. But in August, the actress revealed she had been diagnosed with breast cancer and had undergone a double mastectomy. Applegate, who was named one of PEOPLE's Most Beautiful in 2008, started a program to raise money to help high-risk women pay for expensive MRIs and gene testing.
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Christina Applegate: Five Fun Facts
- At only 5 months old, Christina Applegate appeared with her mother, Nancy Priddy, in a Playtex bottle commercial.
- Before reading for their roles as best friends in the 2002 comedy The Sweetest Thing, Christina Applegate and Cameron Diaz met for tea to see if they had chemistry. "It was amazing from the first second," Applegate said on the Today show.
- Christina Applegate named her miniature pinscher-dachshund mix Tallulah after Jodie Foster's character in the 1976 movie Bugsy Malone.
- When she was in nursery school, Christina Applegate had a penchant for cursing. "But my mother made a deal with me: I could curse, but only at home," she told Rolling Stone. "So I cursed and cursed my way through my childhood."
- Christina Applegate beat out Marisa Tomei, Jenna Elfman and 30 Rock star Jane Krakowski for the role of Charity Hope Valentine in the 2005 Broadway production of Sweet Charity.
Christina Applegate: Biography 
- 1987
Meet The Bundys
Applegate lands her first starring role at 15 when she's cast as teen vixen Kelly Bundy on the FOX sitcom Married … with Children. Though there aren't high hopes for its success, the raunchy comedy about the less-than-wholesome Bundy family (from left, costars David Faustino, Katey Sagal, Buck the dog and Ed O'Neill) becomes the network's No. 1 show. And Applegate, wearing tight tube tops and tiny miniskirts, becomes a teen boy fantasy. Yet, she tells Los Angeles Magazine in 2004, "The whole sexy image was just a character. It wasn't who I was."
- 1991
Babysitter's Club
In Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead, Applegate plays Sue Ellen "Swell" Crandell, who has to take charge of her three younger siblings after their elderly babysitter dies. "My character happened to be the straight man, which is probably the hardest because you want to be able to make people laugh," Applegate tells the Los Angeles Daily News.
- 2001
Saying 'I Do'
"When we shook hands, my heart skipped a beat," Applegate recalls to Hollywood Life magazine about first meeting actor Johnathon Schaech in 1997. After dating for four years – and costarring in several projects together, including the 2000 thriller The Giving Tree – Applegate, 29, and Schaech, 32, marry in an intimate outdoor wedding in Palm Springs, Calif. They share red roses – and tears – at the ceremony attended by 130 guests, including Cameron Diaz and Applegate's former Married castmates Katey Sagal and David Faustino.
Photo Credits
Top Left: ABC
BIOGRAPHY (top to bottom): Warner Bros.; Joe Buissink/WireImage
